Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — Wealth's Dizzy Heights. [ARTICLE]

Wealth's Dizzy Heights.

By a calculation made a short time ago by an American statistician, it seems that seventy citizens of the United States possessed among them an aggregate wealth of £540,600,000. That gives an average of £7.500.000 for each person. To come to particulars : There was one estate—we refrain from mentioning names—returned as worth no less than £BO,000,000. There were five individuals valued at £20,000,000, one valued at £14,000,000, two valued at £12,000,000, six valued at £10,000,000, six valued at £8,000,000, four valued at £7,000,000, thirteen valued at £6,000,000, ten valued at £5,000,000, four valued at £4,500,000, and fifteen valued at £4,000,000. The brain reels before such figures. They express measures of wealth which the ordinary mortal is powerless to grasp. Beside these seventy colossal fortunes there are fifty other persons in the Northern States alone valued at over £2,000,000 each, thirty of them being valued in all at £90,000,000. There were some time ago published lists of sixty-three millionaires in Pennsylvania possessing in the aggregate £60,000,000, and of sixty persons in three villages near New York, whose wealth aggregated £100,000,000. In Boston fifty families pay taxes on annual incomes of about £200,000,000 each.